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Definition of second

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Second (a.) The sixtieth part of a minute of time or of a minute of space, that is, the second regular subdivision of the degree; as, sound moves about 1,140 English feet in a second; five minutes and ten seconds north of this place..

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Second :: Second (n.) An article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; esp., a coarse or inferior kind of flour..

Tertiary :: Tertiary (a.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary..

Trochanter :: Trochanter (n.) The third joint of the leg of an insect, or the second when the trochantine is united with the coxa..

Twifallow :: Twifallow (v. t.) To plow, or fallow, a second time (land that has been once fallowed)..

Marcionite :: Marcionite (n.) A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation..

Resurvey :: Resurvey (n.) A second or new survey.

Reticulum :: Reticulum (n.) The second stomach of ruminants, in which folds of the mucous membrane form hexagonal cells; -- also called the honeycomb stomach..

Fausse-braye :: Fausse-braye (n.) A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level..

Thirty-second :: Thirty-second (a.) Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided.

Extreme :: Extreme (a.) Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth..

Secondary :: Secondary (a.) Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands..

Secondarily :: Secondarily (adv.) Secondly; in the second place.

Deuteroscopy :: Deuteroscopy (n.) Second sight.

Reappearance :: Reappearance (n.) A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.

Reenactment :: Reenactment (n.) The enacting or passing of a law a second time; the renewal of a law.

Prime :: Prime (a.) An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system; -- denoted by [']. See 2d Inch, n., 1..

Homosystemic :: Homosystemic (a.) Developing, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same embryonic systems into which the secondary unit (gastrula or plant enbryo) differentiates..

Decade :: Decade (n.) A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy..

Supertragical :: Supertonic (n.) The note next above the keynote; the second of the scale.

Plant-cane :: Plant-cane (n.) A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon..